YEMEN FIGHTING PUSHES NEARLY 3,000 TO DJIBOUTI IN LESS THAN A WEEK- UN. (PHOTO).
Yemen fighting pushes nearly 3,000 to Djibouti in less than a week: UN Nearly 3,000 people have fled Yemen for Djibouti in less than a week as escalating violence drives growing displacement within the country and across its borders, the UN refugee agency said Friday. “Refugees continue to arrive by boat through Obock, Khor Angar, Moulhoule and Godoria after difficult journeys in small vessels,” UNHCR representative in Djibouti Sandrine Desamours told reporters in Geneva, Anadolu Agency reported. More than half of those crossing the Bab el-Mandeb Strait are women and children, while some families have been displaced for a second time after previously fleeing Yemen during the 2015 crisis and later returning. UNHCR is preparing for at least 10,000 new arrivals but warned that capacity is rapidly diminishing. Markazi refugee village, designed for 5,000 people, was already hosting more than 2,700 Yemenis and 1,500 Eritreans. More than 100,000 people have also been displaced ins...
Pakistan Human Activist Malals Yousafzai said today after meeting with Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan that ''Nigeria's president Goodluck Jonathan promised today monday that the missing Chibok girls kidnapped by Islamist militants would soon return home''.Malala who became a global celebrity after surviving being shot in the head by the Taliban for campaigning for girls education,was visiting Nigeria to support a international campaign for the release of the teenage students abducted in mid April by the Islamist insurgent group Boko Haram.She turned 17 on Saturday at the weekend,she met with the parents of the school girls snatched from the northeastern village of Chibok by Boko Haram fighters.
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